Party approves location and new date for leadership convention
HALIFAX, NS – Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives will be holding their leadership convention at the Cunard Centre in Halifax on October 29th and 30th of 2010.
The party’s executive committee ratified the date and rules for the convention at a weekend meeting in Windsor.
“Leadership 2010’s rules will be similar to our previous convention with the addition of a larger number of delegates per constituency and provisions for delegate status for long-standing party members,” said party Executive Vice-President Rob Batherson.
All of Nova Scotia’s 52 constituencies are weighted equally and can be represented by up to 50 voting delegates. There are also delegate positions for campus associations and ex-officio party members such as current MLAs, candidates, constituency presidents and executive members.
“This leadership convention will draw new members to our party from around the province and that new energy and input is an important part of the rebuilding process that is now underway,” said Batherson.
The leadership committee, chaired by Halifax business person Alice McCarron and Truro lawyer George White, consulted with the party’s presidents' council on October 3rd and presented the rules to the party’s executive on October 24th. The leadership rules will be available on the party’s website in the coming days.
